Twelve Percent of Germans Might Vote for “Far Right”

A survey of Germans has found that one-eighth, or twelve percent, of Germans might contemplate voting for “far-right parties which embrace neo-Nazis,” the weekly magazine Stern said Wednesday.


Thanks to a rule that excludes parties unable to win at least 5 per cent of the vote nationwide, German rightists have never managed to enter the Bundestag parliament during the post-World-War-II era.


The survey, by Forsa pollsters, found 2 per cent of Germans were regular voters for the German Nationalist Democratic Party and its ally the German People's Union DVU.


Another 4 per cent could contemplate voting for either party, while 7 per cent said they could "perhaps contemplate" casting a vote for the far right. The three groups together comprised 13 per cent of German adults. Forsa questioned 3,773 Germans.